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"Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from life in agrarian Cambodia to survival in post-industrial America, while maintaining their identities as Cambodians. The ethnography contrasts the lives of refugees who arrived in America after 1975, with their focus on Khmer traditions, values, and relations, with those of their children who, as descendants of the Khmer Rouge catastrophe, have struggled to become Americans in a society that defines them as different. The ethnography explores America's mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia and its enormous consequences on multiple generations of Khmer refugees"--
Khmer (Southeast Asian people) --- Refugees --- Cambodian Americans --- Social conditions. --- Cultural assimilation. --- Cambodians --- Ethnology --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Khmer Krom (Southeast Asian people) --- Khmers --- 1970s. --- america 1975. --- biographical. --- biography. --- cambodia. --- cambodian refugees. --- catastrophe. --- cultural traditions. --- culture clash. --- ethnographic analysis. --- ethnography. --- example. --- genocide. --- international history. --- khmer rouge. --- khmer. --- refugee. --- shock. --- society. --- southeast asia. --- war. --- world history.
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Since the civil war of the 1970s, Cambodia has suffered devastating upheavals that killed a million ' people and exiled hundreds of thousands. This book is the first to examine Cambodian culture after the ravages of the Pol Pot regime-and to bear witness to the transformation and persistence of tradition among contemporary Cambodians at home and abroad. Bringing together essays by Khmer and Western scholars in anthropology, linguistics, literature, and ethnomusicology, the volume documents the survival of a culture that many had believed lost. Individual chapters explore such topics as Buddhist belief and practice among refugees in the United States, distinctive features of modern Cambodian novels, the lessons taught by Khmer proverbs, some uses of metaphor by the Khmer Rouge regime, the state of traditional music, the recent revival of a form of traditional theater, the concept of pain in Khmer culture, changing conceptions of gender, and refugees' interpretation of American television. Together the essays map a contemporary Cambodian culture, which, for over two hundred thousand Khmers, is now firmly entwined in the social fabric of the urban West.
Khmer (Southeast Asian people) --- Khmer Krom (Southeast Asian people) --- Khmers --- Ethnology --- Cambodians --- Cambodia --- Cambodge --- Khmer Republic --- Cam Bot --- Cambotja --- République khmère --- Kambodscha --- Kamboja --- Kambodža --- Tchin-la --- Chien-pʻu-chai --- Democratic Kampuchea --- Kambujā --- Democratic Cambodia --- Camboja --- Preah Reach Ana Chak Kampuchea --- Kâmpŭchéa Prâchéathĭpâteyy --- Kampuchea démocratique --- République du Cambodge --- Campuchia --- Kampuchea (Coalition Government, 1983- ) --- Kampuchea --- Kampuchii︠a︡ --- Kamphūchā --- Kingdom of Cambodia --- Preăhréachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchéa --- Cambogia --- Roat Kampuchea --- State of Cambodia --- Cambodja --- Royal Government of Cambodia --- French Indochina --- Intellectual life. --- Politics and government --- Braḥrājāṇacakr Kambujā --- Rājraṭṭhabhipāl Kambujā
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